stum (n.) Unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise
fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must.
stum (n.) Wine revived by new fermentation, reulting from the admixture
of must.
stum (v. t.) To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a
new fermentation.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionaryπ
stum stum, n. must, grape-juice unfermented: new wine
used to revive dead or vapid wine: a mixture used to impart artificial
strength, &c., to weak beer or wine: wine revived by the addition of
stum or by a second fermentation.βv.t. to renew or doctor
with stum: to fume, as a cask of liquor, with burning sulphur. [Dut.
stom, mustβstom, mute; Ger. stumm, dumb.]
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongueπ
stum The flower of fermenting wine, used by vintners to adulterate their wines.
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